this is d.w. news to live from berlin after twenty years there is a again france have lifted the world cup trophy for the second time. croatia in the final in moscow setting wild celebrations back home in paris and thousands have gathered around the shell said these days. crushed croatian hopes the convincing four to win this court twice in each half and so probably never gave up it was not enough for france aren't the world champions.

also coming up a high stakes summit in finland between the u.s. and russian president donald trump lands in tel thinking of operation for talks a leader to save the lot of your routine head of meeting trump labels to european union flow over trade gold cross to the finnish capital. omarion evanston welcome to the program in the thrilling final france triumphed over croatia to win the twenty eighteen soccer world cup and to talk about some of the highlights i'm joined now in the studio by nick begin a quine from de villiers force so nick it was a thrilling and to a thrilling tournaments take us through what happened in today's final it was incredible indeed for see the final score that many people would have expected.

highest scoring final a ninety minute period since nine hundred fifty eight when brazil beat sweden five two it doesn't happen very often and france village really deserves it of course they've been to final before ninety eight where they won it they lost in two thousand and six here in berlin some look how they won their second world cup title in moscow. i only am to one of these mall freekick made its way past the croatian keeper but it was a croatian head that noticed it in mario man juke which with an unlucky own goal to get from the leeds i but the croatian comeback kings hit back in the twenty eighth minute through even perish each i've he went from hero to zero though as a video review showed him handling the ball in the opposition box a soft penalty but nonetheless tucked away by i'm to one of these maul for his force of the tournament i in the second half france extended their lead through paul pogba a long range efforts tucked into the corner by kilian pay repeated the trick again beating dannielle suba sheets from far out for one from

stan took their foot off the gas mario man juki chased down a back possible hugo lloris to score an embarrassing mistake but the french captain didn't frown for long for to the final score live below win the world cup for a second time with smiles all round i. think so for two the final score and at least one of those goals maybe more than one of those goals was helped in part we can say by the use of the video assist interview system also known as the a r what did you make of the decision that was then that we saw there and your point is actually more than one of the goals of course as a penalty is which went definitely went to be a free kick open the scoring they also gave my free kick possibly shouldn't have been given and should have guns available and that's a bit of a gray area of how did this in this tournament when to go to the system when not because the system fronts have been helped by v.a.r.

a couple times it's one of minds in the in the first game even against australia both of their goals being given a helping hand from the it's a good system in theory but it's still you know is in baby shoes it needs to you know develop show. see improvements as this is over the next coming seasons here in the brain as they go as well web where v.a. has used all in all the dish on his team definitely deserved to win the world cup they had a bit of us have crusades they were good in the knockout stage that's when they really got the ball rolling be using argentina for three years weiss you know belgium one nil dream midweek well that was a new you know low scoring game france tate's exceptionally good football but it was nothing quite like today let's have a hit listen to what did i have to say about his team winning to. tell him on board . is simply beautiful marvelous for these players stressed such a young generation some of them are world champions or just nineteen even though others have been around a lot longer but feel we didn't quite brilliantly today but we showed lots of mental strength. in any case we scored four goals each deserved. to be good.

deserved indeed a lot of mental strength to rise it was i think to become world champions you definitely need to have. it has it's a click you really have to have the players come together and play as a team live of course go very good players in that squad but all came they came to a place in front of the post the pictures we're seeing now of paris and the fans of course very very happy about what's happened this is the second time france won the world cup after a nice ninety eight and the scenes in paris well it colorful for starters as the artist you know if you just saw there but this is this was an easy lots of fans although there has been vandalism so i mean i don't we don't condone that but this is this is have people been celebrating in paris. and they're saying it was a quarter million people on the streets and it's just as easy as more than a user stopping saturday. to quite this and that's so exceptional it's one. but they're also of course quite euphoric scenes in the stadium itself and not to

mention quite an intense rain storm that hit just as the match was coming to an end and correspondent ali moody was in the stadium and so we asked him to describe the atmosphere and all that rain let's have a listen. dramatic end to the tournament in terms of the elements but it was fitting for the occasion really and indeed what was going on on the pitch it was the croatian fans making most of the noise in the ground the creation fans and the neutrals supporting crozier in this game this country of just four for the half million people brought so many people to this tournament and brought such great atmosphere to not just this final of the semifinal as well a few days ago they really did bring it to life in inside luzhniki stadium behind me tonight so we have to give them a lot of credit for that however you also have to give the french team a lot of credit for coping with this fear coping with the kind of hostile nature of the crowd inside the stadium and playing their game and being cool and calm and

collected and being clinical with their chances as well and you could see with the celebrations at the end just how much it meant to their not just right at the end of the game but the goals from above as well with all of the subs coming out and celebrating with the players on the pitch you can see just how emotional this and a really fitting end to the tournament has given to so much emotion so much passion and so much entertainment as well well speaking of entertainment and there was a forest an incident that actually brought the match to a brief halt when a few protesters stormed the picture tell us what happened there. yeah it was a real shock actually that particular moment seeing people running out onto the pitch while the game was being played given the huge security presence that they've had not just here for the final of course but throughout the world cup you could see that and lovren in particular the croatian defender was not impressed he looked

absolutely furious and i can imagine there was one moment at least in the stadium he was not impressed at all and that's of course vladimir putin this was his big final and it was to a degree spoiled by that protest pussy riot the protest group has claimed responsibility for the pitch invasion so we'll have to keep an eye on this story because it really could run and run and we'll have to see what happens after this. all right so that was our correspondent eileen moody in moscow speaking a little while ago now nick i do want to talk about croatia though i mean second place at the world cup is also not a shabby result for them especially being such a small country just how significant is it that they came at least this far in the world cup term and is the point there is really there a small country there population about four million that's only slightly bigger than berlin very few small countries are made at the world cup final euro why the only other ones who made it nice and thirty nine hundred fifty a similar size country and they were on croatia were on the whole tournament so i

didn't see them getting out of the group stage and they kind of flew under one's radar especially as in the knockout stage they every single game went to penalties so you they weren't quite as strong as i say a front seam or even other team that was in the tournament but crucially fought their way through there is such passion in this team and they do have very good individual players they've got of course look at moderates who won the golden bowl is the one who is best player even racquets is the boss of other players these are all household names and it comes to football but these players won't playing for themselves or as individuals they're playing for croatia and that's how they got themselves in the final and they have done a fantastic job although it's bits of business week they've lost today but finishing second is still a bit of a victory all right so a great night actually for both of those teams all right nick they can climb hundred of these for it's always great to talk to you. well moving on to some other news now and u.s. president donald trump has arrived in finland for a high stakes meeting with his russian counterpart vladimir putin trump landed in

the finnish capital hill think he where he's aiming to strengthen a personal report with putin in a one on one talks on monday morning ahead of the summit at least two thousand fans demonstrated in the capital in support of human rights democracy and the environment which are issues that the processor's said both trump and poutine are neglecting. let's go straight now to be able to you correspondent terry scholz who's in helsinki for us so terry we know that protests have been following president trump throughout his european tour what's happening in helsinki. as you mentioned the protests here this afternoon gathered up to two thousand people and i have to say that most of the protesters were actually more carrying signs and protesting against president trump more than president putin and i asked a couple of them about that and they said you know they just think that it's more

useful to demonstrate against the u.s. president that they find him more offensive and i can tell you that this is this is something that didn't used to happen back in the day of helsinki's long history as as a site for summits between the u.s. and soviet and russian leaders i actually as a young journalist covered both the nine hundred ninety summits between us and the soviet union at that point and one nine hundred ninety seven and back in those days you would just get a handful of protesters at the time so this is definitely it was definitely a more rambunctious and raucous crowd as as you've seen on the video definitely trying to make their mark trying to get their voices out ahead of the arrivals of the two presidents well terry the u.s. president gave an interview to the american network c.b.s. earlier today he talked about the e.u. in no uncertain terms can we bring up that quote from that interview. he said well i think we have a lot of photos i think the european union is

a foe what they do to us in trade now you wouldn't think of the european union but they're a foal and that of course brought a direct response from donald tusk he's president of the european council and he tweeted america and the e.u. are best friends whoever says we are photos is spreading fake news so terry is this just an elaborate plan from donald trump to make these statements before his meeting with the russian leader. well far be it for me to know what donald trump is planning but it certainly has been his modus operandi on this entire trip to europe i was also covering the nato summit in brussels and on the morning that that meeting was to start in a completely unsung scheduled unscripted and and surprising announcement he started lashing out at germany and chancellor angela merkel in a breakfast that was just supposed to be a photo op saying there again as he has now that germany on trade doesn't treat the

u.s. fairly that it shouldn't be spending its money on gas from russia when in trump's words the u.s. is spending its billions to protect germany so that seems to be what he's doing again lashing out at the europeans and in that interview it should be said also that the interviewer was quite surprised and mentioned that you know really the e.u. is the number one foe against the united states and trump said absolutely you wouldn't think it but you know ahead of russia and china who are who are foes in some respects so it just seems that he wants to again put his mark down against europe to finland to the host is a member of the european union and certainly there will be those people saying that this is something that president vladimir putin of russia will be happy to hear as he comes to town to meet president trump. all right d.w. correspondent teri schultz reporting from hell thinking many thanks indeed. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world and a group of women and children have been evacuated from two rescue ships stranded

off the coast of italy some four hundred fifty migrants are on board but rome is not allowing the others to disembark until other e.u. states agree to take more of them in so far germany france and malta have agreed to take around fifteen migrants each. a suicide bomber has killed at least seven people in the afghan capital kabul more than fifteen others were injured by the blast near a government ministry the u.n. says the number of civilians killed in afghanistan hit a record high in the first half of twenty eighteen most of them were killed by militant attacks and suicide bombings. turkey is marking the second anniversary of a failed coup attempt against president wretch of air to one thousands of his supporters converged on what's known as july the fifteenth markers bridge in istanbul which was renamed for the hundreds killed resisting the attempted overthrow

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